AFETO/COGNIÇÃO SOCIAL SITUADA/CULTURAS/LINGUAGENS EM USO (ACCL) COMO UNIDADE DE ANÁLISE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO

Abstract

This article makes a theoretical-methodological discussion about the understanding of the cultural development of infants and young children through the Method of Unit of Analysis from the point of view of Historical-cultural Theory in dialogue with Ethnography in Education. This dialogue, in which one approach interrogates and expands the other, made it possible to construct a synthesis of interpretation of the classrooms as an indivisible totality - the unit of analysis [affection/situated social cognition/cultures/languages ​​in use] (ACCL) . We argue that affections are the essence of the human being, which derives our cognition, our capacity to know what is produced as cultures, through semiotic mediation, through languages ​​in use, in social development situations. It is essential to say that these concepts act dialectically, opposing each other and, at the same time, constituting each other. Only based on a dialectical logic that admits internal contradictions between objectification and individual appropriation of cultures, could this unit of analysis be thought out and put into practice in our research. Thus, our focus is on understanding what affects infants and young children in order to create something new in their developments, considering that the language of the human person is not only constituted in orality, but also in other manifestations, as in gestures, facial expressions, body movement, among others. Thus, infants and young children carry bodies that speak, feel, think, play, producing senses for the world.